Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1887-09-29
THE NEWS.

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corDed beef.
Miss Margaret Beltz, of North Lewis
burg, o., was burned to death by her
clothing catching fire.
John Wilson was crushed to death in
he attempt to crawl under. a moving
freight train at Alliance, o.
p. &. Scott, jr, son of ev- Gov. Scott, of
Arkansas, was robbed in Chicago of
S4 800 in notes and $500 in money.
Thomas Madden was killed and Ad
ans fatally injured by being run over
by B, & D. train at Suter Station, Pa.
A statement of the finances of Cook
county (ChicagO). ILL.,, shows the lIablll
ties to be 81, 1,O7S,OO5, and resources S121,-
$50.
A gas pipe bomb was found in street
car comDany's barnD at Chicago. II
had the clock-work attachment for ext
ploding.
Hon. E. B. Washburne. formerly ..
s. Minister to France, is i'll of conges|
tion of the brain at the home of his son
in Chicago.
Sa:dy Frazier, teaching school near
Russellville, O., is charged by Miss
Bassett with being the father of her IL
legitimate child.
Hon. W. R. Morrison. the Illinois
free-tTader, will be a candidate for Con-
gress when the time comes. He was
defeated last fall.
The Central Executive Committee of
the Union Labor party at Cincinnati has
refused to intercede in behalf of the
Chicago Anarchists.
Democrats of the SD State Senatorial
District, in convention at TiffiD, O.,nOm-
mated E S DOdd, of Toledo, and Herman
GroschBer, of Henry county.
J.B. Mercer & Co., manufacturers of
knit goods, Evansville, O., asslgne i,with
$4,000 liabilities. Two hundred men
are throw out of employment.
The Government is giving attention
to the purchase and preservation OF the
ancient mounds. earth works and fortii>
cations found on this continent.
VIM. J. Finlay, Toledo's millionaire
brewer. has donated $4,000 for the
erection of new building for the Home
for Friendless Women of that city.
Colonel A. Andrews, a wealthy San
Franciscy jeweler. is in Washington
looking up Mexican war pension,
which he has donated to a needy person.
Of the Isl persons injured in the
Chatsworth calamity, l12 have recoAer-
ed Thirty-nine are still under physi-
clans care, three or four OF whom may
die.
The Indian Bureau will not Tecede
from its position that no language but
English shall be taught in the Indian
schools. notwithstanding the opposition
offered.
The decomposed body of Lille Hoyle,
who disappeared from Webster Mass,
September 1, was found in barn at Ok
ford. Her feet and hands were bound
with rope.
Honesteaders are rushing into the
wilderness near Baraga, Mich, at rap
id rate to take up pine and farming
lands recently taken away from a rail
road company.
viii A. Strong. ex-Secretary of State
of Louisiana, has been convicted of the
embezzlement of $4,000 of State money
in connection with the sale of election
ticket paper.
The old school house near Dwight's
Crossing, Mass, in which Henry Ward
Beecher preached his first sermon while
attending Amherst College, has been
destroyed by fire.
The Kentucky Methodist conference
+ laI fo Of hn unl n
Wesleyan College from Millersburg to
Winchester, which latter place offers an
endowment of S3S.0OO.
A. FL. Ford. boy. of Meridian, Tex,
while attempting to escape, was fatally
shot by Chief of Police Harris, of Wich-
ita Kas, being mistaken for another boy
whose arrest was sought.
An express on the Indianapolis and
st. Louis railroad was derailed at Fern,
Ind, and the engineer and fireman, Mich
ael and James ReddingtOn, father and
son. were instantly killed.
A company has been formed at Son.
erset, KY. for the manufacture of a
machine for producing "four-year-old
whisky" within few minutes after the
new product leaves the still.
Mayor Roche. of Chicago, has been ad-
vised of the acceptance by the President
of the invitation of Chicago to visit that
city. The President will reach there
on "Wednesday, October 5, and remain
one day.
A freight train on the Chicago, Mil
waukee and St. Paul broke at Inwood,
Ia, the rear portion dashing down a
grade and colliding with passenger
train three miles east of COntOn, DakO-
ia. Six persons we're killed.
There is talk in Florida of organizing
shippers union to regulate the sale and
shipment or oranges, onions and other
fruits. with a view OF dispensing with
commission men in Northern and West
ern cities.
Emancipation Day was celebrated at
Jackson. Miss, by the colOred people.
There was procession 5000 strong, in
Guiding military and civic societies; and
the Emancipation Proclamatiyn of Pres |
ident Lincoln was read.
General Faulkner, brother of the !
President of the First National Bank of |
DAnsville, n. Y, was arrested on the |
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quarterly statement of the bank, know |
ing it to be fraudulent.
A sensation was caused in Rochester !
On. " political circles by Rev. j. A. |
Copeland avowing himself for the |
George movement. Mr.. Copeland was |
the candidate of the Prohibition party |
for Congress last year.
The Massachusetts Democratic State |
Convention at Worcester nominated Fl !
b. Lowering for Governor. ibdOrsed |
Gleveland's administration, and sdvo
,.ated modification of the tariff, and |
the use of internal taxes to pay the pub
lie debt.
The jury in the case of Charles Woods,
charged with the murder in Dakota of
George Fleury. rendered verdict of
acquittal. Woods will now be reinsta+
ted in the United States army and re,
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